I don't want to be too quick to increase the allocation, because that increases my monthly fee. (And I just increased it 2 days ago.) I'll certainly do it if those errors occur enough to be a major problem. So, y'all keep me posted.

FYI I used to access the board through my phone, a PalmOS based Treo with the stock "Blazer" browser, but since the update, I can't do this directly.

If I type in or link to a URL like viewforum.php/f=2 for the flute forum, I get "Nor Found The requested URL /viewforum.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 not Found error was encountered while trying to use Error Document to handle the request."

It's been terrible all day today. I've learned that the first thing you do when posting is to copy, then hit send. Back to like it was a few weeks ago I reckon. Same excruciating slowness, same error messages.

_________________"Last night, among his fellow roughs,He jested, quaff'd and swore."

They cut me down and I leapt up highI am the life that'll never, never die.I'll live in you if you'll live in me -I am the lord of the dance, said he!

This partly falls into Bloggs' (that's me) rule of user services. It goes like this:

The more power you give to users, the faster your resources will run out.

The rest falls into Bloggs' rule of computer-programing-language-generational-layers. It goes like this:

Ther is really no generation of progaming language beyond the third (C, Pascal, COBOL etc) .. true there is wisdom in the notion of objects - but you have to be a black-belt Aspburger's nerd to use it effectively - the supply of them is limited (growing but never enough).

Things like PHP give me the oiks - they violate all of Bloggs' rules - it is worse than graphical interface driven language generators.

Here is teh third rule of Bloggs:As things become more complex, illusions of simplicity become necessary to keep a reasonable perception of understanding of it all - this generates "harness" controls. Many a rider has not a clue if his horse is sick, cranky, hungry or simply downright ornery - just so long as the stagecoach gets to Phoenix .. such riders are often found dead on the roadside from starvation, thirst, exp[osure or blood-loss. And here we have the whole of civilization trusting harnesses made of sparkly dream dust.

There is compelling commercial motive for real programmers to isolate themselves from users, managers, accountants, pseudo programmers and anyone else that can exert pressure on them. The time has long past when a humble user has any hope of understanding what is really going on in their computer - only the high priesthood of 1, 2 and 3rd generation programers can know. They now rule the universe and can spout any kind of malarky to cover their proverbials .. it is an easy thing to dissable the error report system.

Truly religion is borne of ignorance. Ignorance is assured by need.

The get-out-of-jail-free card is and has always been:If it doesn't work - sack the creator. ... If you dare.

Worst thing about computers is you cannot smell them until they explode.

(edited to say: on the bright side - Whistles don't suffer from these limitations .. and the stagecoach seems to be rolling a bit better than it did. )